re: The Case Against Adnan Syed - HBO-

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Great point. They heard six weeks worth and didnt even blink about their decision.

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The flip side to that is the lawyer did such an awful job she couldn’t even plant a seed of doubt in the juries mind with a pretty flimsy case against Adnan.

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Serial tried to make you sympathetic for Adnan (though I'm sure more objectively than the show will), but by the end I found it impossible to for the sole fact that he didnt care that he was in jail. It was just whatever to him. If I was Sarah Koenig that would have driven me nuts. You're doing all this, whether you state it or not, to try and prove his innocence, but you're doing it for someone who doesnt even care. He openly admitted that towards the end of the podcast. Screw that.

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I don’t understand this line of thinking from people. It’s much like the comments in the “Abducted in Plain Sight” thread. People are trying to think of their reactions without providing any sort of context to the extraordinary circumstances in each case.

This guy has been sitting in prison for 15 years for something he claims he didn’t do with knowledge that he’s more than likely never going to get out. He had no reason to believe a podcast was going to blow up like it did. His telling of the story did not bother me at all. It actually made him sympathetic as he seemed to be trying to make the most of his life and move on.

To just take the attitude in these scenarios of “if it was me I’d be freaking pissed” or “I wouldn’t believe that alien story at 12” by just putting yourself in that scenario isn’t an accurate way to try to put yourself in someone else’s shoes.

Besides, if he was incredulous and pissed off etc. people could still just look at it and say he’s putting on an act. I’d much rather the honest reaction than the reaction generated to try to look a certain way.